Has anyone run The Auction? Are there any specific roadblocks (aside from the number of NPCs) that I need to be aware of?
(I know this should be Goodman-product related, but I figure I'll dip my toe in the waters of your collective experinces with Chaosium stuff until December when Death in Luxor arrives.)
"The Auction" in Cthulhu Casebook
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Re: "The Auction" in Cthulhu Casebook
Is that the one that is exactly that, an auction? I remember it seeming a bit thin, unless carefully couched within an ongoing campaign, where I'd expect it to bloom into something fulsome and, well, tentacled....Ogrepuppy wrote:Has anyone run The Auction? Are there any specific roadblocks (aside from the number of NPCs) that I need to be aware of?
I'd have to dig out the Casebook if it's not what I'm thinking of, because I have run a random selection of adventures out of my books. When I say 'dig', I mean 'take it down from the shelf when I get home'....
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Re: "The Auction" in Cthulhu Casebook
Yeah, it's an auction...but that's the first part of the adventure. The second "phase" involves tracking down a killer/thief, and that's where things get really interesting....
The whole thing, as written, is approximately 6 pages...very short in print.
There are lots of little details and small fiddly bits, sometimes even just a paragraph or sentence, that makes the adventure well-thought-out and (I daresay) multifaceted, though.
I've even considered trying to make the adventure more "pulp-y" but wasn't sure how.
The whole thing, as written, is approximately 6 pages...very short in print.
There are lots of little details and small fiddly bits, sometimes even just a paragraph or sentence, that makes the adventure well-thought-out and (I daresay) multifaceted, though.
I've even considered trying to make the adventure more "pulp-y" but wasn't sure how.
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Re: "The Auction" in Cthulhu Casebook
Okay, so The Auction wasn't what I remembered it to be... in a good way. Probably hadn't read it in a decade. Now I'd like to run it, too. That and the Westchester House adventure, which I'd make back into being about Winchester House. Ah, for a group interested in CoC....
I have run the -- crud, what was the name of it? -- [something or other] From the Past? With a group of fairly-experienced and barely-experienced gamers, it went well.
Sorry, I can't be more help there, OP... Go with your gut.
I have run the -- crud, what was the name of it? -- [something or other] From the Past? With a group of fairly-experienced and barely-experienced gamers, it went well.
Sorry, I can't be more help there, OP... Go with your gut.
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